Title: Community Resource Public Service Announcements: Using Podcasts and Videocasts for Understanding the Role of Community Resources in Social Capital
Grade: College
Subject: Human Development (Psychology)
Background Info:
Many students and their families are unaware of the plethora of community resources that are available to them. In an effort to arm students with this information to improve conditions in and around their communities, students will create community resource public service announcements. In preparation for this work, students will have already have been introduced to Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theorywhich holds that interactions with others in different contexts are key to development. Students will have also already been introduced to the concept of social capital, the idea that social networks have value in the support and care they provide for the developing person.
Objectives:
Students will demonstrate understanding of social capital by a. identifying a community resource; b. reporting what services the resource provides under what parameters; c. examining the relationships between resources presented by groups in the class; and d. designing a mind/concept map for illustrating the relationships between those resources.
Activity Description:
Students will, following the model of a public service announcement, create a podcast or videocast that describes area community resources. Students will then present their podcast or videocast to their class peers, explaining their process and reasoning.
Student Directions:
Community resources are defined as public or private agencies, groups, schools, programs, etc. that provide services to people in a community to improve health and life.
Students will:
Complete the podcast/videocast and concept mapping parts of this lesson in groups of 5
Use a group wiki to collaborate outside of class in the planning, writing, producing and editing of the podcast/video
Choose their agencies and communicate that choice to the instructor (groups cannot choose the same resource)
Research their resources before conducting an on-site interview. The research can be through the resource's website, any recent community news related to that resource, via telephone conversations with representatives from the resource.
Conduct an on-site interview with a staff member of the community resource being researched
Create a podcast/video based on the interview and research
Edit their podcast/video
Publish their podcast/videocast on the course website
Present their podcast/videocast to the class, explaining how their resource fits the definition of social capital
Share on the class discussion board why they chose the agency they did, an insight they walked away with regarding how social capital in their community can affect individual development, and which other resource presented by a group caught their interest and why
Respond to three other classmates' posts
Create a mind/concept map to illustrate the relationships between the resources presented in class
As a culminating activity, students will plan a Community Resources Fair
The class will brainstorm the kind of information community members would want about this resource before conducting the interviews, e.g.:
Services provided
Location
Years in service
Any affiliations the agency has (e.g., the agency might be affiliated with a church, national organization, etc.)
Population served
Fees charged
How to access services
Number of staff
Whether there is typically a waiting list and how long the wait can be
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Lesson Plan
Title: Community Resource Public Service Announcements: Using Podcasts and Videocasts for Understanding the Role of Community Resources in Social Capital
Grade: College
Subject: Human Development (Psychology)
Background Info:
Many students and their families are unaware of the plethora of community resources that are available to them. In an effort to arm students with this information to improve conditions in and around their communities, students will create community resource public service announcements. In preparation for this work, students will have already have been introduced to Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theorywhich holds that interactions with others in different contexts are key to development. Students will have also already been introduced to the concept of social capital, the idea that social networks have value in the support and care they provide for the developing person.Objectives:
Students will demonstrate understanding of social capital bya. identifying a community resource;
b. reporting what services the resource provides under what parameters;
c. examining the relationships between resources presented by groups in the class; and
d. designing a mind/concept map for illustrating the relationships between those resources.
Activity Description:
Students will, following the model of a public service announcement, create a podcast or videocast that describes area community resources. Students will then present their podcast or videocast to their class peers, explaining their process and reasoning.Student Directions:
Community resources are defined as public or private agencies, groups, schools, programs, etc. that provide services to people in a community to improve health and life.Students will:
The class will brainstorm the kind of information community members would want about this resource before conducting the interviews, e.g.:
Students will find useful information on creating public service announcements on the Community Toolbox website that is generated through the University of Kansas.
Technology Needs for Podcast/Vodcasts:
Microphone, computer with Audacity software or MP3 software; digital video recorder; iTunes; TeacherTube; SchoolTube;Assessment:
Students will be assessed on:
Rubric for Assessment:
Resources & Web Links:
Teaching with Podcasts
Using Podcasts to Address Concepts Students Find Difficult
Apple iTunesThe Flipped Classroom
How to Construct a Concept Map
The Community Toolbox
SCI Social Capital Inc.
Ecological Models of Human Development
Images:
Jem Stone. (2004, January 15). Social Capital Slide. jem's photostream. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
Niall Kennedy. (2005, September 5). Community. niall kennedy's photostream. Retrieved July 20, 2013.